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populi of the profession, will on any and every occasion out- vote 
the ex-officios, and they will with the more ease accomplish this, 
since, as the council meetings are to be held “ at the Royal Vete- 
rinary College,” or “ within the county of Middlesex,” the 
Edinburgh Professors will not find it convenient at all times to 
attend. But then, it may be asked, “ Will not the veterinary 
Board annul all proceedings of Council that may be unpalatable to 
them !” — No doubt they will ! — They will, doubtless, refer such 
popular enactments back to Council for re-consideration. The 
Council, however — the majority of them at least — may possibly 
prove perverse and uncontrollable — in fine, may not choose to be 
dictated to ! What next will happen 1 Collision between Board 
and Council, and afterwards between Council and Board, until, in 
the end, the new charter will not be found to work at all ! This is 
our omen of its fate, supposing that such a charter as is now being 
petitioned for should ever be granted ; which, in the face of one 
that works so well for the profession as the present has done and 
is doing, we feel quite persuaded is, in the present state of affairs, 
any thing but likely to come to pass. 
VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
London Sessions, before the Recorder, Aldermen Kelly, 
Gibbs, H. Sidney, Hunter, Hooper, &c. , . 
These Sessions sat this morning at Guildhall, and there was 
a very crowded court, in consequence of the case of the exposure 
of a glandered horse for sale in Smithfield market being expected 
to come on for trial. After several other cases of minor import- 
ance had been disposed of, William Duckwell was indicted for 
having exposed for sale in Smithfield market, on the 15th inst., a 
mare, he knowing her to be suffering under the visitation of the 
disease called the “ glanders.” 
Mr. Laurie conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. 
Payne appeared for the defendant. 
Mr. Laurie , in stating the case, said that the present prosecu- 
tion had been instituted by the corporation of the City of London, 
under the full conviction that, if the practice of the commission of 
